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magical. That’s your choice and yours alone.”
    “Will anything be normal after this?” I
wondered aloud.
    “Do you want the truth?” he asked.
    “Yes.”
    “No, nothing will be normal. Things will get
tough, tougher than most people could imagine, but things like
this…” he said, looking around. “…aren’t all that rare in this
world we’ve been thrown into.”
    “But I thought—”
    “This was the only place like this?” he
asked, not waiting for an answer. “No, it’s the most powerful for
keeping evil away, but our magic can do far more than we know.” He
grabbed both of my hands and closed his eyes. “Do you feel that?”
he asked.
    “Yes,” I whispered, out of breath. It was
like electricity, flowing through him to me.
    “We learn everything in the real world, and
we think that’s how it’s supposed to be. It is for normal people.
We’ve mastered the concepts of that world, at least as much as we
could at this age. When we find someone like us, someone we feel
something for, it’s almost an instant connection. It doesn’t feel
right, not in the real world. We try to fight it, but soon we
realize where we are now, is more real than anything we’d known
before. Everything becomes normal, though you’ll never get over the
amazing things that can happen,” Dante explained.
    “And what about all the death, all the
violence, everyone that’s come after us that wants us dead?” I
blurted.
    “For most people, even people like us, that
would be a problem. We came through it, stronger than ever.
Everything inside me tells me to talk you out of what you’re
thinking, but I know you can handle it; I know we can handle it,”
he admitted.
    “People have died, right in front of us, and
to be honest I’m afraid of just how normal that’s starting to feel.
You have a problem, you kill it. My mom is a problem, but I don’t
know if I can…” I felt the tears returning.
    “You do what you need to do,” he said,
looking into my eyes. “But you did kind of scare me when you
stabbed that guy to death.”
    “I know; that’s what I’m saying,” I let my
head fall. He pulled me close to him.
    “He was a bad man, Scarlett. You don’t have
the urge to kill any of us do you?”
    “No, not at all, it was just so easy,” I
mumbled against his chest. “Doesn’t that make me evil? Aren’t there
more civil ways to solve your problems?”
    “Unfortunately, no. In the real world,
maybe…” he stressed the word maybe, “…but not here.”
    “I just feel like I’m crazy,” I sighed.
    “You’re fine. Sometimes that’s what it takes
to survive, and things aren’t always simple. The police can’t be
involved. They want to kill you; you kill them, problem solved, as
messed up as it may seem,” he muttered.
    “Okay, enough about this.”
    I put my arm around him and continued
walking. He pushed aside a big branch, and there was the lake.
     
     
     

Chapter 3: Beauty
    I stood motionless in front of the water. I
searched my brain, trying to remember a place as perfect as this,
but I couldn’t. Sure the forest itself was magnificent, but this…
this was incredible. The sun was just about to set; we got here
just in time. The trees gathered around the water, casting their
reflection onto the surface. The sun lit the lake up and gave it an
almost orange appearance. Dante Grabbed my hand and led me over to
a dock that went about ten feet into the water. The sun had hidden
behind the trees, and the icy fall air filled my lungs. I sat
cross-legged on the dock, not wanting to dip my feet into the
even-colder water. Then I noticed steam emerging up from the
surface. I took my shoes off and submerged my feet into the water.
It was… warm.
    “What are you thinking about?” he asked in a
soft voice as he dipped his feet in as well.
    “Everything,” I said, staring at the
lake.
    “Anything in particular?”
    “How am I going to make this work? If we’re
going to be stuck here forever—”